Day 11 of our road trip and I decide to update my personal site that I haven't updated in almost a year.  Well this road trip has given me an excuse to put something up here.  We've made our way from Seattle to San Francisco, over the Sierra Nevadas, through Death Valley, and into the nation within a nation, Texas!  Now this isn't oil field Texas.  We're in Austin which is kind of wierd.  It's a liberal haven in the middle of Pax Americana.  We're staying with the Repps and their neighborhood is full of out of state techies.  So in that respect it feels right at home.